Phoenix SF All Nighter

An all-night SF movie extravaganza at the Phoenix Picture House, running from 2000 (films start at 2200) to 0830ish on 26/10/2002.

The Films

• 28 Days Later <imdb:title/0289043> (see Twenty Eight Days Later)
• Evangelion / Invasion Of The Body Snatchers? (1978 version) <imdb:title/0077745>
• Mad Max 2? <imdb:title/0082694> / West World? <imdb:title/0070909>
• Time Bandits? <imdb:title/0081633> / Blade Runner <imdb:title/0083658>
• Predator <imdb:title/0093773> / The Thing <imdb:title/0084787>

See:

http://www.phoenix-sf.net/

Well, i thought it was quite good fun. Some particular points of note:

• Twenty Eight Days Later was really good (the screenplay is available in Borders --TL)
• Invasion Of The Body Snatchers? was okay, and had notably realistic lab scenes, but what the fuck was the dog with a man's face all about?
• West World? was okay. It felt like it would have made an excellent 45 min TV show. I now understand where the Red Dwarf episode Gunmen of the Apocolypse came from
• Blade Runner was Blade Runner
• The Thing is satisfyingly blobby, in the hideously deformed sense of the word

--TA

Those who completed the whole thing can add their names to the All-Nighter Roll of Honour:

• Tom Anderson
• Duncan Martin
• Alx Williams
• Ian Snell